UN – United Nations

What is needed to prepare today’s young people for the future? Opinions vary, but one answer is a good grounding in international affairs. In an increasingly globalized world in which challenges transcend borders, the ability to understand and empathize with other cultures and points of view has become invaluable. As such, UNA-USA and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA), one of the nation’s oldest historically black sororities, have embarked on a new partnership with the […]

By Joanne Peter, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action This blog is part of our Innovation Working Group Program series, highlighting the impact mobile technology is having on global health and development around the world. Learn more about the twenty-six mHealth projects funded under the IWG grant program here. In August 2013, Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Internet.org, a global partnership that aims to make affordable Internet access available to the two-thirds of the world

Amid the Ebola outbreak and continuing threats to peace and security around the world, a new poll released yesterday by our sister organization, the Better World Campaign, finds that a majority of Americans agree that working through the United Nations is essential to addressing the toughest challenges facing our world today. The survey, which was released just two days shy of UN Day, made two things clear: 1. Significant majorities of Republicans, Independents and Democrats

Today, October 24, marks the anniversary of the UN Charter, established in 1945. As the global community works to respond to the Ebola outbreak — which World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan has called “likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced” — there has perhaps never been a more appropriate year to honor the working relationship between the U.S. and the UN. As we’ve seen with

The United Nations and its agencies, including the World Health Organization, are on the ground in West Africa, working with governments and non-governmental groups to stop the Ebola outbreak. Along with partners, the UN is constructing Ebola treatment centers, providing medical expertise, airlifting aid including protective gear, delivering food, training health care workers, and much more. The World Health Organization shared with us photographs capturing the response efforts in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and we

By Liza Gross La Fundación de las Naciones Unidas y la Asociación de las Naciones Unidas de EEUU (UNA-USA) reconocieron la destacada contribución de individuos, organizaciones y corporaciones a la labor de las Naciones Unidas en su gala anual celebrada anoche en Nueva York. Aproximadamente 500 huéspedes asistieron a la entrega de los Premios al Liderazgo Global 2014, incluyendo distinguidas personalidades como el célebre empresario Ted Turner, la reina Rania de Jordania, el ex presidente

Flying at 39,000 feet on my return home from Haiti, I finally had a few moments to think about what I saw and heard over the past few days in the country. Certainly I was struck by what has changed on the surface in the three years since my last visit to Haiti: the near-absence of 2010 earthquake rubble from the streets and the movement of hundreds of thousands of Haitians from temporary shelter to

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” – Fred Rogers “I need to work for my country,” said Linda Harding, a community health nurse in Sierra Leone, who is helping with the response to the Ebola outbreak in her country. As the disease continues to take a heavy toll in

Next month in Lima, Peru, negotiators from around the world will gather for the next round of United Nations climate talks. That will be an important moment on the journey to Paris in 2015, when all countries have pledged to reach a new global agreement on climate change. But in many ways, the key moment of this important year occurred in Copenhagen last week, when scientists and national governments agreed on a report summarizing the